Chapter 1 Business Imperatives: Why Scheduling Matters
The Scheduler’s World Has Been Turned Upside Down
As we write this book in late 2022, supply chains are still heavily disrupted by COVID-19-induced staff shortages, supply shortages, and port closures. A worldwide shortage of food starch, triggered partly by a shortage of propylene oxide necessary for starch production, coupled with transportation issues, caused innumerable downstream impacts; for example, see Figure 1.1.
The lack of availability of equipment spares has resulted in plants temporarily closing down lines until they can source replacement parts, thus curtailing production. The resulting shortages in one company can lead to a shift of demand to ...
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